Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (born Élisabeth Jacquet, March 17, 1665, Paris – June 27, 1729, Paris) was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer.
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[edit] Life
Jacquet de La Guerre was born into an important family of musicians and masons. A childhood prodigy, Elisabeth Jacquet played the harpsichord before King Louis XIV to inaugurate her career as a virtuoso performer at the age of five. At the court of Louis XIV she was noticed by Madame de Montespan, and was kept on in her entourage. She married the organist Marin de La Guerre in 1684 and left the court. Thereafter she was known as Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre. After her marriage she taught and gave concerts throughout Paris, and gained much acclaim.
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Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was one of the few women composers of her time. There has been a renaissance of interest in her work and a number have been recorded in recent years. The work of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre includes:
- Dance suites for the harpsichord (2 collections: 1687 and 1707) ;
- Opera Céphale et Procris (1694) ;
- Trio sonatas (1695) ;
- Sonatas for violin and harpsichord(1707) ;
- Cantatas: of both a religious (1708 and 1711) and secular nature (around 1715).
Her collection of harpsichord pieces 1687 was one of the few such books printed in France in the 17th-century.
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[edit] Sources
- September 14. "Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 2006 [[{{{4}}}]]), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
[edit] Bibliography
(French) Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Une femme compositeur sous le règne de Louis XIV by Catherine Cessac, Paris 1995 Ed. Actes Sud
